But that's easier said than done. How can Zhao Gou provide enough facts for the study of righteousness and rationality oriented by the classics?

This is not just something that can be done by fighting a war and reconquiring lost territory.

Because the Heaven-Shaking Thunder appeared first, it became very, very easy to regain the lost ground.

This should have been the ultimate goal of changing the law to strengthen the country, such as Wang Anshi's reform and the previous Qingli New Deal, which were all to boost the country's momentum. And the best way to bounce your country up is to defeat the enemy on the battlefield. But now this seems to be insufficient as an important basis for measuring the changes in national strength.

So where does he need to set his freshman goals?

It's people's livelihood. In addition to this, Zhao Gou really couldn't find a better entry point.

Who called the old Zhao family so awesome in the tax system?

Whoever takes wealth from all the peoples, he does not leave anything surplus. The people are born at the time, and they don't know how to live.

Even if you are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, you can't deny the fact that the ancients carved and peeled the law are all available in this dynasty.

The government of the Song Dynasty not only inherited the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the five dynasties and previous dynasties, but also added many new laws to collect the people. It is burdensome and burdensome, which can be said to be several times more than ancient.

Zhao Gou really admired the tax formulation of the old Zhao family, it was like having a super advanced computer, and he came up with an extremely advanced mathematical model, accurately calculated the living materials needed by the people to live, left the necessary rations for the people and peasants under his rule, and then collected all the rest.

Otherwise, how high can the annual income of the Zhao Song government be? Let the Ming Dynasty cry dad and call his mother can't keep up?

Although the consequence of this was that in the Zhao and Song dynasties, less than two years after the founding of the country, there began to be peasant rebels. In the Taizong period, it was the second generation of monarchs, and a medium-sized uprising such as Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising broke out. It's incredible.

This is because of the human heart. As long as it is a human being, there are seven emotions and six desires, the old Zhao family is already dancing on the red line, the tax policy is too harsh, once it encounters an immoral and greedy official, it is appropriate for the officials to force the people to rebel.

The emperor of another dynasty heard that someone was revolting:, someone is making trouble?

The emperor of the Zhao and Song dynasties heard that someone was revolting: Oh, someone is making trouble again?

The gap between the two sides is so big.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, which was more than 160 years old, there were more than 200 peasant uprisings, an average of more than one a year, and if it was said that this had nothing to do with the harsh taxes, Zhao Gou dared to cut off his head and kick it as a ball.

But also because the old Zhao family also left the most basic means of living for the people, most of the country's situation is still stable.

Peasant uprisings were also small-scale uprisings, and very few affected all the way. The vast majority of civil unrest has been quelled by the local government.

The hundreds of millions of people under the rule of the old Zhao family have been oppressed too ruthlessly, and I believe that as long as Zhao Gou loosens the shackles a little, countless people can feel the change.

Back then, Fan Zhen once said: The worries of the ministers are not in Siyi, but in the redundant soldiers and the poor people!

It can be seen that the scholars and doctors in this world are not unaware.

Of course, there will also be a lot of people who vomit fragrantly, this great Song Tianzi is sharing the world with their scholars and doctors, doing those mud-legged birds?

But Zhao Gou will not only have this means, and not everyone can say that kind of thing openly.

In addition to loosening the restrictions on farmers, another entry point for Zhao Gou was businessmen.

Merchants have always been a very sad profession in ancient Chinese history, not to mention that Confucianism, which misunderstood the meaning of the four people, directly nailed them to the position of social inferiority, that is, when the collusion between officials and businessmen reached a certain extreme, businessmen were still very sad.

They held the silver and took out the hard-working officialdom to pave the way for their favored scholars, who would have a bright future when they soared, but the merchants were still businessmen. Even if their investment partners know how to repay their kindness, they only add a layer of reliable protection for themselves, and that power is not their own after all.

In a sense, shouting and killing the merchant class has even become the political correctness of all Chinese dynasties.

Confucianism is also awesome to put a group of wealthy people who have a lot of social information and power into such a situation.

With the passage of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the prosperous market economy of the Zhao and Song dynasties greatly increased the power of merchants. Taking Bianliang City as an example, although many guilds or big businessmen have backers hidden behind them, just looking at the rich businessmen here can spend money to marry the daughter of the clan as their wife and daughter-in-law, then you can know that their influence is not weak.

In Bianliang City, one is the hat Tian family, the other is the big bucket Zhang family, one married ten county lords, and the other married more than thirty county lords. bought one every 5,000 yuan, and even the Queen Mother felt shameless after hearing it.

Because during the Zhao and Song dynasties, giving birth to a girl was an absolute money-loser.

In this era, there is no bride price, and the daughter's family pays the dowry, and the society is accustomed to marrying generously. This is social etiquette, and the second is to support the daughter.

The woman's dowry is thin and can directly determine their status in the man's family.

What's more, there is still everyone's face, the richer and richer everyone is, the more they have to hemorrhage when they marry their daughters.

But these county lords can not only save a sum of money, but also make 5,000 yuan. And for their husbands, they are also a symbol of status, even a protective umbrella.

From this point, you can see that these businessmen don't have any 'power', otherwise it would be too embarrassing to marry the county lord of the sect. But at the same time, it also shows that the big businessmen are pursuing a higher level of social status.

In the words of later generations, it is the urgent need for a group to move to a higher level after the accumulated power has reached a certain level.

After these years of development, the merchants of the Song Dynasty have obviously passed the low-level material pursuits, and have changed to the affirmation of a higher level of political city and social status.

Zhao Gou still has to stir up the power of this group of people now.

"Minlord?" Zhao Butry's brows furrowed to death. He didn't expect King Yan to come up with this trick.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Minjue has officially withdrawn from the stage of Chinese history.

But now Zhao Gou not only took out the people to those big businessmen, but also popularized them to the veterans in the army......

Retired soldiers have meritorious service to the country, according to the merit of the knighthood, private merchants donate money, repair bridges and pave roads, beneficial to the family and the country, can also be given the people's knights.

The civil lords are divided into fifty-two ranks, which are the same as the official ranks.

That's awesome! It solves a lot of problems in a simple way.

Money.

Moreover, the civil lord is not an official position, its only role is an honorary title, or it can be seen without worship, and even on an equal footing. However, the dignity of this one who resists the court of officials is enough to make countless businessmen rush to it.

Zhao Butry knew very well that Zhao Gou had the idea of raising the army in his heart, so wouldn't he take it out now. But what's the deal with the merchants?

"Because there is no farming, there is no stability, no work, no wealth, no business, no life."